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| Name: | Lisa Cohen Minnick (IPA: lisə kowɪn mɪnɪk) |
| Institution: | Western Michigan University |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.retroflexive.com |
| State and/or Country: |
MI USA |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Discourse Analysis Historical Linguistics Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Text/Corpus Linguistics Ling & Literature |
| Subject Language(s): |
English |
| Selected Publications: |
Dialect Literature and English in the USA: Standardization and National Linguistic Identity. In Hickey (ed.), Varieties of English in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. 163-95.
Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 2004. Jim's Language and the Issue of Race in Huckleberry Finn. Language and Literature 10:2 (2001). Representations of Speech and Attitudes about Race in The Sound and the Fury. Southern Journal of Linguistics 25:1/2 (2003) |
| Announced on LINGUIST : |
Dialect and Dichotomy |
| Courses Taught: |
Language Variation in American English
Development of Modern English Language, Gender, and Culture The Language of American Literature Politics and the English Language |
| Dissertation Abstract: | Dialect and Dichotomy: A computational and critical approach to analyzing literary representations of African American speech |
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